“E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a “single sitting” was longer back in… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
A short story can be really interesting and enriching and powerful, but a novel just contains so much more information and richness… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“Oh," He thought, "There is something very wrong with this girl." James thoughts regarding Kristen in "Top From The Bottom" a short… — Donya Petrock Copy Share Image
Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
“You land a second strike, this time just on my left cheek. It feels hard already and stings like hell. I imagine… — Felicity Brandon Copy Share Image
TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
“He admired bears because everyone was afraid to disturb them while they slept and fish were so in love with bears that… — Robb Todd Copy Share Image
Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
“Then I knew what the trouble was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Short stories are like individual jewel stones on a necklace, wonderful in themselves like standalone gleaming entities of semantic intensity. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“NOVEL, SHORT STORY. TRY TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME READING TO HELP RELEASE STRESS AND INCREASE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HIS LIFE. http://www.noveldaily.com/ ” — Short story Copy Share Image
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or… — Maggie Carey Copy Share Image
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man *would* have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get… — Victor Salva Copy Share Image
Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
“The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, embarrassed by its nakedness.” — Stuart Haddon Copy Share Image
“A short story is a messenger from beyond mere thought, that wanders the Earth knocking on doors, praying for a soul that… — Richard Small Copy Share Image
It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
My first short story, which you may find under the same title in booktracks. Do read it at your will and I… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
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